Self improvement?

icsheeple · May 11, 2015

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Some years ago I had the opportunity to attend seminar on "Decision Driving". One of the most informative driving seminars I have ever been to. And the neat thing about Decision Driving is you don't have to attend a seminar to use the concept. In the big truck, car, makes no difference. And it makes you a more alert and safer driver.

Going down the road, you mentally call to yourself what is happening in front of you. Therefore you are calling your own attention to potential issues.

For example, say you are sitting at a light...you call out in your head what is going on...A pedestrian on the right curb, possibly walk in front. Light goes green, you call out, car coming out of gas station, ok car waiting, car passing on left possibly cut me off, car in front slowing-I know this from the puff of smoke from the exhaust when he lifted off gas...etc, etc.

Follow me? It keeps a driver alert.
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I can just imagine you with a tilted head talking to yourself like Rain Man. "I'm an excellent driver. Dad let's me drive the car on Tuesdays on the driveway. I'm an excellent driver..."

I'm just kidding, seems like what anybody would already do normally, without a seminar to dress it up. Situational awareness is something you have to work on for a while consciously, then it starts to work for you naturally.

spindrift · May 12, 2015

SLANT6 said: ↑

Some years ago I had the opportunity to attend seminar on "Decision Driving". One of the most informative driving seminars I have ever been to. And the neat thing about Decision Driving is you don't have to attend a seminar to use the concept. In the big truck, car, makes no difference. And it makes you a more alert and safer driver.
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